• Brenda Daly has been sewing cloth masks for her family.
    What are you making?
  • Donna Miller-Brown has been baking her own bread!
  • Rebecca Koop got a pile of mulch delivered from Global Gardens, so she’s been working in the St. John Garden next door to her pottery studio.
  • Bonnie LaFond made this shadowbox frame of her son.
  • Dalton Elliott and Rachael Cross have been painting a lot. Here is some of their most recent work.

  • Erika and Randy Withers bought a sewing machine and taught themselves how how to make face masks by watching YouTube videos.

  • Joyce Schleisman made this shaded seating area in her yard with vintage chairs and plastic flamingos that she ordered online.

  • Julie Lane converted an old bunk bed into a raised bed vegetable garden.
  • Missy Jones was “in the kitchen mood” so she made enough mole sauce and tortillas from scratch that she could deliver it to her neighbors!
  • Megan Morgan has been practicing her violin; she’s in a group called Drunken Fiddles but they can’t meet right now.

    Her husband, Trey Morgan, is working on artwork for a show at the Hilliard Gallery scheduled for First Friday in August, assuming the #StayHome orders are lifted by then.

  • Zachary Laman has been painting portraits of pets, but he took a moment to paint this beetle in between commissions.
  • While the weather has been nice, Sim and Yolanda Taylor have been dancing and laughing every evening in their front yard with their four daughters, creating many happy memories during this difficult time.
  • Northeast resident, Johanna (@potionyarns ), is spinning her beautiful hand-dyed yarn! ⁣
  • Missouri State Representative Ingrid Burnett has been practicing new songs on the piano. She couldn’t bring the piano into her yard so we watched her play through the window!
  • Beau Bledsoe has been teaching his son Aidan old country songs.
  • Michaela Phoenix got a new guitar last week, so she met her friend, Patience, halfway between their houses and performed songs that she’s been practicing on one side of the street while her friend listened from the other side.
  • Steffan McBee has been creating laser engravings and 3D printed objects.